The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Thursday, April 25, 2002  

SEEKING BETTER PUBLIC RELATIONS?
Take a Tip from the Legion of Christ: Buy a Newspaper

The National Catholic Register has on its web site an article by Father Richard John Neuhaus called "Feathers of Scandal."

The article was previously published in the March 2002 issue of First Things, a journal edited by Fr. Neuhaus.

The essay is a lengthy, emotional, and frankly, rather unconvincing defense of Father Marcial Maciel Degollado against charges of sexually abusing teenage seminarians in Mexico going back some 40 years.

Now, Fr. Maciel is the founder of the cultish Legion of Christ, the fastest-growing religious order in the Catholic Church today.

And the Legion of Christ, through an entity doing business as Circle Media Inc., owns the National Catholic Register, a relationship nowhere mentioned in Fr. Neuhaus's article or anywhere else on the Register's web site.

So, what is the Register these days? An objective observer of the Church or a shill for the Legion of Christ?

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